Oct. 28 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1636, Harvard College, now Harvard University, was founded in Massachusetts. In 1886, the Statue of Liberty, a gift of friendship from the people of France ...

Every day has a story, a moment in time when something changed—quietly or loudly—in human history. What about today, October 28? On this date, we honor milestones and turning points: On 28 October ...

Back in January of 1919, the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. Authored by U.S. Sen. Morris Sheppard of Texarkana, the amendment banned the manufacture, sale or ...

Post-Dispatch archives Oct 23, 2025 Oct 23, 2025 0 See the front pages for this week in 1925. (9) updates to this series since Oct 23, 2025 Headlines from the Oct. 23, 1925, front page include: $5 ...

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In the Capitol’s legislative and judicial laboratories, a decade of scrutiny and debate has been expended upon those cloudy tinctures, the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act. Since the Volstead Act ...

Americans hold religious freedom dear, enshrining it in the First Amendment. Even when the Eighteenth Amendment was ratified in 1919, banning “intoxicating liquors,” enforcement under the Volstead Act ...